This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright
2007).
Virtually all business, scientific, and engineering applications
are heavily reliant on numeric data items. C++ and Java offer
object-oriented programmers unique flexibility and control over the
computations required within such applications.
However, most books on object-oriented programming gloss over such
numeric data items, emphasizing instead one-dimensional containers
or collections and components of the graphical user
interface.

Object-Oriented Computation in C++ and Java fills the
gap left by such books.
Drawing on more than twenty years' experience as a software
developer, tester, consultant, and professor, Conrad Weisert shows
readers how to use numeric objects effectively.
Not limited to any language or methodology, the concepts and
techniques discussed in this book are entirely independent of one's
choice of design and coding methodology.
Practitioners of Extreme Programming, UML-driven design, agile
methods, incremental development, and so on will all develop these
same data classes.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or an advanced computer
science student, this book can teach you techniques that will
improve the quality of your programming and the efficiency of your
applications. The exercises (and answers) presented in this book
with teach you new ways to implement the computational power of
C++, Java, and numeric data items.
Topics include
taxonomy of data types
developing and using object-oriented classes for numeric data
design patterns for commonly occurring numeric data types
families of interacting numeric data types
choosing efficient and flexible internal data representations
techniques for exploiting pattern reuse in C++
conventions for arithmetic operations in Java
numeric vectors and matrices